DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Weekly Report.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 42, 14 February 1896, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Weekly Report.

Mhssis Weight, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows : — A moder-rtely large entry of horses was offered at our sale on Siturday, » good number of which changed hands. The demand for draughts was fairly active, more especially for good young sorts, wh'ch are in Bh< rt supply. There were no really good harness horses offered, th >se which came under the hammer being only of medium or inferior det-cnption, and for these sorts the demand was vtry quiet. W quote : Heavy draughts, four to six years, L 22 to L 27;2 7; do, eight to tea years, Lls to L2O ; light

and small do, L 8 to Ll2 ; aged and inferior do, L 4 to L 7 ; upstanding spring-cart horses, young and sound, Ll2 to Ll6 ; well-bred upstanding backs and harness horses, Ll6 to L2O, ; upstanding backs and harness horses, LlO to Ll4 ; aged and inforior L2to L 5

Mb F. Meenan. King street, reports: — Wholesale price onlyOats, feed: Is 51 to Is 7£d ; milling, Is 91 ; demand quiet. Wheat: Fowls' 2s 7d to 3s 61 ; Fair demand. Milling, 3i 101 to 4l Id ; Chaff : new now in, £2 10s to £2 15 ; old, £2 12a 6 1 to £3 2s 6d ; market well supplied. Hay, oaten : None in market. Byegrass, new, £3. Tbe quality is good this season. Straw : 32s 61 to 35a, pressed and loose. Potatoes : kidneys, £2 17s 6d to £3 2a 6d ; derwents, not in market. Flour : sacks, £10, £10 10a ; Roller, stone, £9 to £9 10s; Oatmeal : in 251bs. £10; bntter, dairy, 6d to 8d ; Factory, 9d to 101. Eggs, la. Onions, 8s per cwt. Melbourne bran, L 3 10s.